This photograph has minimal retouching. Cropped, curved, and contrasted. I also applied an unsharp mask. The sky was that actual color and the object in the sky was a plane that flew by.
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I know, I know...too small. I was quite aware of the problem but I didn't realize that until competition was started and I wasn't allowed to remove it. Sorry about that!
Oh Darn! This is such a beautiful photo, and I'm going to score it high, but I KNOW these brutal dpc voters, and they are not very kind to small photos. If you need help sizing for your next entry, PM me and I'll help you get your photo the normal size. Lots and lots of people do that in early challenges. But it really is a great photo! Good luck!
Right then, joke's on me as I now have to plough through 564 images and bump them all (yes, all of them) up. There'll be a third run through for fine tuning. It's day two three now and I'm running late, sorry.
Wish this was bigger. I could see that this was a very interesting shot of an airplane at sunset. Unfortunately, the uploaded size is really too small to be able to see any of the details.